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  • noun Plural form of jailbreak.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jailbreak.

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Examples

  • Previous 'jailbreaks' - including JailbreakMe, which could be installed on an iPhone just by visiting Jailbreakme. com on the device - exploited software bugs within the platform, and were subsequently easily patched by Apple.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Granick: There has been kind of a technological arms race with Apple disabling the "jailbreaks," and then researchers figuring out how to re-jailbreak it, and then consumers doing that, and then Apple issuing updates that break the jailbreaking, and then the whole cycle repeats itself.

    Marketplace 2010

  • With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2010

  • With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2010

  • With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers.

    dive into mark 2010

  • Report: Apple TV - Hack "jailbreaks" AppleTV [updated 11: 20 EDT] - Royal Hawaiian Apple Store Grand Opening from hawaii on Vimeo.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • Report: Apple TV - Hack "jailbreaks" AppleTV [updated 11: 20 EDT] - Royal Hawaiian Apple Store Grand Opening from hawaii on Vimeo.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • There had been not one but two jailbreaks in Yemen in recent years by men involved in the USS Cole attack.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Malory's biography is now fairly secure, and what stands out is his astonishing record of crimes and jailbreaks.

    Arthurian Glories Renewed Tom Shippey 2011

  • There had been not one but two jailbreaks in Yemen in recent years by men involved in the USS Cole attack.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

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